The Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health promotes mental health for all New Yorkers

How to help someone who needs mental healthcare

As New Yorkers, we look out for each other. If you want to help someone who needs mental healthcare, you can. Get started with our new guide, produced with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and NYC Health + Hospitals. The guide walks you through how to get mental health support for anyone, at any level of need – including what to know, where to look, and who to call.

Transforming NYC's response to mental health emergencies

For the first time ever in New York City, mental and physical health professionals are responding to 911 mental health calls.

And it’s working: in the first month of operations, this new approach (called B-HEARD) is increasing connection to community-based care, reducing unnecessary transports to hospitals, and reducing unnecessary use of police resources.

Deploying mobile treatment teams to deliver life-changing care

Imagine clinicians bringing support and medication right to your neighborhood. For more than 4,600 people with serious mental illness — many of whom experience homelessness or have been involved in the justice system — that’s a reality. In two years, that number will climb to over 5,300 people.

Increasing capacity to serve more New Yorkers

In April, the City announced a range of new investments that will build on existing resources to create a new, flexible model for mental health care to reach more New Yorkers and help them stay connected to care. That includes expanded capacity in the City’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment program, which provides mental health services to a small number of individuals for whom treatment has been mandated in civil court.